Law Review Article Describes Private Equity as Bargaining Failure, Indictment of Law and Economics Fetishization of Contracts
An important new paper puts another big chink in private equity’s armor.
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Can the Economy Afford NOT To Fight Climate Change?
Yves here. If humans are fortunate enough merely to suffer a Jackpot rather than a full-bore collapse, perhaps future historians will try to make sense of why individuals and governments did pretty much squat to prevent climate change even when they recognized it really was well underway and would produce very bad outcomes. I imagine […]
Read more...A Football World Cup Every Two Years? An Expert Runs the Numbers
FIFA has floated a proposal to hold the football World Cup every two years rather than every four. Will the overall effect be a positive one for Fifa’s income?
Read more...Social Security COLA for 2022 To Be Near 5.8%, Could Match 2009, Biggest Since 1982
Seniors are destined to lose ground with cost of living increases, but how badly will they lag with 2022’s seemingly large boost?
Read more...18 Vaccine Experts, Including Top FDA Scientists, Publish Review in The Lancet Saying Current Evidence Doesn’t Support Need for COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters for the Fully Vaccinated
Top international vaccine experts contend current evidence does not support a need for boosters for the fully vaccinated general population at this time and recommending instead directing doses to previously unvaccinated populations.
Read more...Why the Rich Get Richer and Interest Rates Go Down
A wrongheaded paper from the Jackson Hole conference that depends on the loanble funds fallacy lets central bankers off the hook.
Read more...Wait and See: The Labor Market Implications of Economic Uncertainty
An increase in perceived uncertainty does indeed increase the value of waiting, thus reducing job creation.
Read more...US as Failed State: Covid Booster Shot Mess
The booster situation has developed not necessarily to the Biden Administration’s advantage.
Read more...‘America Has a Monopoly Problem’: Coalition Backs Legislation to Break Up Big Tech
Anti-monopoly interests have proposed a series of bills to give regulators more power, particularly with respect to tech.
Read more...Lack of a Vaccine Mandate Becomes Competitive Advantage in Hospital Staffing Wars
Why most hospitals aren’t imposing vaccine mandates.
Read more...Behold the Watered Stock’s New Variant!
Back to the future! Welcome to the successor to a 19th century favorite, watered stock.
Read more...Prominent CalPERS Retiree Group Warns California Secretary of State About Illegal, Hacking-Friendly Voting Methods
An important CalPERS beneficiary group calls out the fund’s use of illegal, insecure, fraud-friendly internet and phone voting.
Read more...‘Net Zero Emissions’ and the Carbon Offsetting Scam
Big Polluters are advancing a “net zero” climate agenda to delay, deceive, and deny. The IPCC is inadvertently helping them.
Read more...Current Climate Extremes Double at 2 Degrees Warming and Quadruple at 3 – Lead IPCC Author
The latest IPCC report shows we are climate-cooking our goose more quickly than even most pessimists had thought.
Read more...I Studied People Who Think Leisure Is a Waste of Time – Here’s What I Found
Leisure? Bah, humbug!
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